The 10 Best Movie Taglines The 10 Best Movie Taglines Comment [Updated with video] Since theatrical posters and advertising campaigns became just as important to selling a motion picture as the cast and crew assembled, the significance of a well-worded tagline was too large to overlook. Whether relying on humor, wit, horror, or simply a playful tease of things to come, the best in the movie business have turned taglines into an art form, giving rise to some truly fantastic one-line summaries that didn’t just catch consumer attention, but occasionally ended up to be more immortalized than their respective films. Some might ask exactly how a tagline could communicate more than a film’s title, stars, director, or writer – but for the average moviegoer, a clever combination of words can turn a film from a curiosity into a much-anticipated theatrical experience. We’ve already taken the time to point out some of the worst taglines in movie history , but figured some praise was in order as well. There are plenty to choose from, but here is our list of the 10 Best Movie Taglines.

– I Am Legend (2007) Technically, I Am Legend deserves as much credit for its chilling tagline as The Omega Man, also an adaptation of Richard Matheson’s original novel. But the promise that Robert Neville (Will Smith) would not be able to enjoy the peace and quiet of being the last man on Earth because of an unknown inhabitant is as effective as ever. The single sentence manages to convey all the central themes of the film – isolation, paranoia, danger – to the point that the simple phrase could almost be considered an extremely short story in itself. The fact that the marketing department decided to leave the vampire/crazed remnant of humanity off of the theatrical posters and let the creeping fear of the unknown build tension instead, shows that they knew their tagline embodied the overall ‘less is more’ philosophy. – Shaun of the Dead (2004) Hollywood has turned the tongue-in-cheek one-liner into a fairly common trope for cheesy taglines, but the one chosen for Edgar Wright’s Shaun of the Dead manages to escape criticism due to the simple fact that “a romantic comedy, with zombies” actually gives an accurate depiction of what message the film is seeking to send.

The story may be set during a zombie outbreak, but as is the case in all of Wright’s films, love and friendship are the true core of the story. The horde of stumbling, flesh-eating zombies may result in some truly horrific violence and head-smashing, but the film is less about what you can survive and more about who you would want to survive beside. In this case, it takes the end of the world for Shaun (Simon Pegg) to realize that his life needs direction, and to stop taking the love of his life for granted. In other words: it’s a romantic comedy. With zombies. – 8. The Prestige (2006) Not every tagline needs to steal the spotlight from the movie it’s marketing – some are simply clever enough to cast the whole film in a new light. For Christopher Nolan’s tale of two rival magicians in 19th century London, the tagline – “are you watching closely?” – makes perfect sense, spoken multiple times in the film. But when the credits rolled, it became perfectly clear that the question was being posed to the audience directly, with the director dropping more than enough clues about the final twist along the way.

Repeat viewings are a must, and the tagline only gets better with age. – Cocktail (1988) Not everybody is a fan of puns, and movies featuring a sly wink or play on words tend to elicit more eye-rolls than awards. But with Cocktail, a tagline was conceived (to a chorus of cheers and high fives, we assume) that managed to not only offer a pun for the ages, but actually capture the entire spirit and character arc of the protagonist Brian Flanagan (Tom Cruise). The tagline is serious, cocky, filled with bravado, but inherently implies that the film’s hero is… less than kingly when he isn’t tossing bottles and martini shakers behind a bar top. Those assumptions are a perfect expectation of the film’s conflict, while also capturing enough of the 1980s Hollywood love affair with Tom Cruise to make a movie about a bartender still sound like much, much more. – 6.

Ghostbusters (1984) There are several entries on our list that made their way from film tagline to household phrase, but few are as widespread and well-recognized as that of Ghostbusters – specifically, the call and response of the movie’s theme song. To this day, ask any group of people “who ya gonna call?” and you’re likely to hear a chorus of voices shouting “Ghostbusters.” What makes the popularity of the catchphrase even more amazing is the fact that it isn’t actually used in the movie, with the team’s slogan actually being “we’re ready to believe you!” Yet even the film’s initial tagline proclaiming the group of comically-un-heroic parapsychologists “here to save the world” made an exaggerated claim capture the spirit of the film when juxtaposed with the bumbling stars. – 5. Quiz Show (1994) The tagline of director Robert Redford’s Quiz Show may sound like it belongs to a film following a magician or con artist, but it actually belonged to a much less fantastical tale.

Following the quiz show scandals of the 1950s (in which multiple game shows were revealed to be heavily choreographed and rigged by producers), the movie offered a star-studded re-telling of an era when game shows caught the eye of the United States Congress and the Supreme Court. Besides being as coy and intriguing as a tagline can ever truly get, the line does for the scandalous period of television history what the film itself did for the scandal: heightened it to become the stuff of legend. In reality, the scandals were a simple case of producers manufacturing suspense and spectacle to please their sponsors. But in a movie as hard-hitting as Quiz Show, and with a tagline to match, the devious con made the American public the mark, with none of them the wiser. – 4. Jaws 2 (1978) With Jaws, director Steven Spielberg changed the world in multiple ways, from the simplistic-but-chilling musical score to the looming fear that every body of water could – could – contain a man-eating great white shark. So it’s somewhat surprising that the most clever and arguably well-known tagline from the series actually came from the film’s sequel, Jaws 2.

To this day, there are likely those who have heard the tagline “just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water…” without actually realizing exactly what movie monster helps complete the sentence. It’s far more haunting than any of the original film’s taglines, and helped establish the villainous shark at the heart of each installment as a certified horror movie killer. – Superman (1978) It’s hard to think of a time before movie audiences were able to believe in superheroes, let alone flock to superhero blockbusters more than almost any other. But make no mistake: when the producers of Superman: The Movie set out to bring the most iconic superhero to live on the big screen for a new generation, they were doing so against overwhelming odds. The perfect tagline, then? A promise that the film would do what no other before it had managed to. These days, claiming a film will make audiences “believe a man can fly” would normally be left to director and actor interviews. But back in 1978, audiences needed it in writing. The film delivered, using a mix of wire work and projection to make Christopher Reeve appear to fly through the air.

Had the film fallen short of the tagline, the modern age of superhero films may not have happened. So let’s all count ourselves lucky. – Alien (1979) Little explanation is needed for Alien‘s tagline, as Ridley Scott’s sci-fi/horror film’s place in cinema history is already guaranteed. Audiences couldn’t have known that the glowing alien eggs seen in the theatrical posters would be the ultimate cause of the many, many screams uttered throughout the film, but the tagline made the film’s desire to shock and terrorize its audience clear from the outset. The tagline offered a brief lesson in physics by warning that sound can’t carry through the vacuum of space (a fact most films still choose to ignore), but also communicated how isolating and remote the film’s setting aboard the USCSS Nostromo would be. With a single alien, and a setting that made even a person’s scream disappear from their throat, the film’s tagline (like the film itself) proved that tension is infinitely more satisfying than jump scares.

– The Thing (1982) Some taglines make a movie fan want to meet the mind that created it – and others are so clearly a sign of depravity that you would be better off avoiding those responsible. For John Carpenter’s The Thing , the observation that as comforting as a thick coat may be in the Antarctic, “man is the warmest place to hide” still makes our skin crawl. Those who have yet to see the film won’t quite grasp the plot points and threads foreshadowed by the tagline, but those who have will recognize the fear, the cold, the paranoia, and the grotesque biology that made the film an instant classic. The simple sentence is disturbing enough to scare off the faint of heart, but pique the curiosity of every science fiction and horror fan in a heartbeat. – Honorable Mention: Day of the Dolphin (1973) There are times when those charged with concocting a tagline craft a masterpiece: a simple phrase so evocative, so witty, or so chilling that it sells the movie all by itself.

But then there are times when the movie is so ridiculous, so far-fetched, and so hopelessly ill-conceived, that no tagline could be clever enough to fool audiences into thinking there is more to the film than meets the eye. Mike Nichols’ The Day of the Dolphin is clearly a case of the latter, when – let’s be honest – the absurdity of the premise was its primary selling point (aside from star George C. Scott). Telling the tale of a humble scientist trying to teach dolphins to communicate with human beings takes a shocking turn when it is revealed that he has actually been training them – unwittingly, of course – to execute a strike on the President. The tagline has been singled out by many as an example of a “bad” tagline, but considering what they had to work with, we feel those responsible made the right call. – Conclusion That’s just a small sample of the many taglines that have shown how a few simple words can condense an entire movie universe. Every movie fan will have their own favorites which remain as poetic as they are attention-grabbing, so be sure to name them in the comments.

Great Film Tag Lines Great Film Tag Lines "This Ain't No Chick Flick!" AND Dude, Where's My Car? (2000) "After a night they can't remember comes a day they'll never forget." Erin Brockovich (2000) "She brought a small town to its feet and a huge corporation to its knees." Final Destination (2000) "Death doesn't take no for an answer." Gladiator (2000) Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000) "Ice cold. Hot wired." "Think you're alone? Think again." Jack Frost 2: The Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman (2000) "He's Icin' & Slicin'" "Nobody ever grows up quite like they imagined." Memento (2000) "Some memories are best forgotten." Me, Myself, & Irene (2000) O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) "They have a plan...but not a clue." Quills (2000) "Meet the Marquis de Sade. The pleasure is all his." The Replacements (2000) "Throw the ball.

Catch the girl. Keep it simple." Scary Movie (2000) "Trust a few. Fear the rest." Avenging Disco Vampires (2001) "War is hell...but peace is f*#!%!! boring." The Cat's Meow (2001) "The Whisper Told Most Often..." Donnie Darko (2001) "One ring to rule them all." Monsters, Inc. (2001) "You Won't Believe Your Eye." Not Another Teen Movie (2001) "They served you Breakfast. They gave you Pie. Now we're gonna stuff your face." Ocean's Eleven (2001) "Are You In Or Out?" The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) "Family isn't a word. It's a sentence." Scary Movie 2 (2001) "More sex! More screams! Less taste!" Session 9 (2001) "The greatest fairy tale never told." Zoolander (2001) "3% BODY FAT.

1% BRAIN ACTIVITY." Bowling for Columbine (2002) "One nation under the gun." Catch Me If You Can (2002) "The true story of a real fake." City of God (2002) "15 miles from paradise...one man will do anything to tell the world everything." Collateral Damage (2002) "They took everything he had...except his rage." Curse of the Forty-Niner (2002) (aka Miner's Massacre) "They axed for it!" "It was supposed to be the safest room in the house." The Ring (2002) "Before you die, you see..." Signs (2002) "It's not like they didn't warn us." Bulletproof Monk (2003) "A monk. A punk. A chick. In a kick-ass flick." Finding Nemo (2003) "Everything you know about desire is dead wrong" Johnny English (2003) "He Knows No Fear. He Knows No Danger.

He Knows Nothing" Lost in Translation (2003) "Sometimes you have to go halfway around the world to come full circle." AND "Everything that has a beginning has an end." Monster Man (2003) "On this highway, the roadkill is human." Paycheck (2003) "Great trilogies come in threes." AVP: Alien Vs. Predator (2004) "Whoever Wins...We Lose." "Live your life at the point of impact." Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004) "Grab life by the ball." Envy (2004) "Success didn't go to his head, it went to his neighbor." EuroTrip (2004) "No actual Europeans were harmed in the making of this film." Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) "Does my gluteus maximus look big in this?" The Grudge (2004) "It never forgives.

It never forgets." Home on the Range (2004) "Bust a Moo." "He's out to prove he's got nothing to prove." Ocean's Twelve (2004) "Twelve is the new eleven." Scary Movie 4 (2004) "The funniest thing you ever sawed." Shaun of the Dead (2004) "A romantic comedy. With zombies." Starsky & Hutch (2004) "The one name they all fear." Brokeback Mountain (2005) "Love is a force of nature." The 40 Year-Old Virgin (2005) "The longer you wait, the harder it gets." House of Wax (2005) "On May 6th...See Paris Die!" Jarhead (2005) "Some family secrets are best kept buried." Monster-in-Law (2005) "This relationship is going to be a real mother." Saw 2 (2005) "Oh yes, there will be blood." The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005) "Laugh. Cry.

Share the pants." The Prestige (2006) "Do not disturb them. They already are." AND "He's looking forward to a memory he won't have to suppress" Stick It (2006) "It's not called Gym-Nice-Tics" and AND "'Nasty.' It's the key word in 'Gymnastics,' without the 'Y.'" The Tooth Fairy (2006) "The Childhood Fairy Tale Becomes Your Worst Nightmare." AND "Put a tooth under your pillow and let the bloodbath begin." Dead Silence (2007) "The last man on Earth is not alone." In the Valley of Elah (2007) "Sometimes The Truth Is Best Left Buried" Mr. Bean's Holiday (2007) "This might hurt a little." The Simpsons Movie (2007) "See our family.

And feel better about yours." Zodiac (2007) "There's more than one way to lose your life to a killer" Burn After Reading (2008) "His father, her mother, his mother and her father all in one day." The Happening (2008) "We've Sensed It. We've Seen The Signs. Now... It's Happening." The Machine Girl (2008) "Schoolgirls, Drill bras, Ninjas, One big machine gun!" AND "A Girl. A MachineGun. A Revenge." Marley & Me (2008) "This Christmas, Heel the Love." Twilight (2008) "When you can live forever, what do you live for?" Crank: High Voltage (2009) "He was dead...But he got better." Don McKay (2009) "Some secrets are better left buried." Knowing (2009) "What Happens When The Numbers Run Out?" Life Is Hot in Cracktown (2009) "Be cool. Life is cool.

You're so cool in Cracktown." The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009) "No goats, no glory." Shaun of the Dead (2004) - Taglines - IMDb Shaun of the Dead (2004) It's just one of those days when you're feeling a little...dead. Buy Milk. Ring Mum. Dodge Zombies Shuffling into theaters September 24th. A romantic comedy. With zombies. Ever felt like you were surrounded by zombies? In a time of crisis a hero must rise...from his sofa. Bought coffee. Called Mom. Dodged zombies. This September, aim for the head. See also Watch Shaun Of The Dead (2004) HD Online Free Shaun of the Dead (R) (2004) Watch Online in HD at ZOnlineMovies Watch Shaun of the Dead Online To Watch Movie Online in Mobile Phone , TURN TO FULL SCREEN! via ↗ button on player. x In Shaun of the Dead, A man decides to turn his moribund life around by winning back his ex-girlfriend, reconciling his relationship with his mother, and dealing with an entire community that has returned from the dead to eat the living.

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Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. 13 wins & 20 nominations. See more awards » Photos Exceptional London cop Nicholas Angel is involuntarily transferred to a quaint English village and paired with a witless new partner. While on the beat, Nicholas suspects a sinister conspiracy is afoot with the residents. Director: Edgar Wright Five friends who reunite in an attempt to top their epic pub crawl from twenty years earlier unwittingly become humanity's only hope for survival. Director: Edgar Wright A shy student trying to reach his family in Ohio, a gun-toting tough guy trying to find the last Twinkie, and a pair of sisters trying to get to an amusement park join forces to travel across a zombie-filled America. Director: Ruben Fleischer Two British comic-book geeks traveling across the U.S. encounter an alien outside Area 51. Director: Greg Mottola Dave Lizewski is an unnoticed high school student and comic book fan who one day decides to become a superhero, even though he has no powers, training or meaningful reason to do so.

Director: Matthew Vaughn Four weeks after a mysterious, incurable virus spreads throughout the UK, a handful of survivors try to find sanctuary. Director: Danny Boyle Scott Pilgrim must defeat his new girlfriend's seven evil exes in order to win her heart. Director: Edgar Wright Two co-dependent high school seniors are forced to deal with separation anxiety after their plan to stage a booze-soaked party goes awry. Director: Greg Mottola Six months after the rage virus was inflicted on the population of Great Britain, the US Army helps to secure a small area of London for the survivors to repopulate and start again. But not everything goes to plan. Director: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo A nurse, a policeman, a young married couple, a salesman, and other survivors of a worldwide plague that is producing aggressive, flesh-eating zombies, take refuge in a mega Midwestern shopping mall. Director: Zack Snyder A pair of underachieving cops are sent back to a local high school to blend in and bring down a synthetic drug ring. Directors: Phil Lord, Christopher Miller Stars: Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, Ice Cube Following Kick-Ass' heroics, other citizens are inspired to become masked crusaders.

But the Red Mist leads his own group of evil supervillains to kill Kick-Ass and destroy everything for which he stands. Director: Jeff Wadlow Edit Storyline Shaun doesn't have a very good day, so he decides to turn his life around by getting his ex to take him back, but he times it for right in the middle of what may be a zombie apocalypse... But for him, it's an opportunity to show everyone he knows how useful he is by saving them all. All he has to do is survive... And get his ex back. Written by Infest0125 A romantic comedy. With zombies. See more » Genres: Rated R for zombie violence/gore and language | See all certifications » Parents Guide: 24 September 2004 (USA) See more » Also Known As: Muertos de risa See more » Filming Locations: £1,603,410 (UK) (9 April 2004) Gross: Did You Know? Trivia When Shaun is at work, he is showing a couple the TVs. As he is flipping through channels, we see Trisha Goddard with a woman guest, and a game show.

At the end of the movie, this same woman and game show will be seen on TV. The woman who is dating a zombie, and zombies attached to bungee cords. See more » Goofs When Shaun goes to Liz's flat to patch things up with her after not booking the restaurant, he says he doesn't need cigarettes, and throws his pack of Embassy into the bin. Later, at the end of the film, Liz offers Shaun a cigarette from the same pack she took from the bin because she was desperate, yet the pack is now Marlboro Lights. See more » Quotes The credits end with the incidental Mall Muzak from Dawn of the Dead (1978). See more » Connections Additional Production and Remix by Kid Koala Courtesy of De Wolfe Limited/Ninja Tune The best comedy of the year! 7 October 2004 | by Grigory_the_Wanderer (Reno, USA) – See all my reviews Here in the States they don't show too many foreign movies, even if they are from the countries like UK. When they show them, however, they tend to outdo some of the American movies in the box office.

Although the British movies are rarely shown here, they're a guaranteed success do you recall the popularity of the last year's "28 Days Later"? Well, this movie is even better - it's a hilarious combination of comedy, social parody, tragedy and drama, spiced with the references to every zombie flick ever made. Some references are pretty slim, though - for example "We're coming to get you, Barbara!" is a reference to "The Night of the Living Dead" - a reference that many people (including George Romero!) didn't get. Most of the actors are unknown to an average American, yet they played great! I hope that movies like "Shaun of the Dead" will make big wigs in Hollywood realize that there are many great foreign movies, and that integrity is always better than crude remakes which the States are so notorious for... I encourage everybody to come and see SOTD - the best comedy of 2004. 221 of 299 people found this review helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes 30 Greatest Movie Taglines | GamesRadar+ 30 Greatest Movie Taglines GoldenEye (1995) The Tagline: "You know the name.

You know the number." Why It's Great: Having been off our screens for a good few years, Bond returned in style, leaner, smoother and far less camp than he'd been in years. This tagline embodies all those attributes by oozing cool without trying too hard… If It Was Long-Winded: "You know the name. You know the number. Unless you don't, in which case we're talking about James Bond, 007." Prev The Forty Year Old Virgin (2005) The Tagline: "The longer you wait, the harder it gets." Why It's Great: There's nothing like a good double-entendre, is there? Well, it works for a sex comedy at least. Might not be such a good choice for a Holocaust drama… If It Was Long-Winded: "He's had to wait ages for sex, so understandably, his old chap has got really hard! Wait, that's not how it works, is it? Get the textbook!" Prev Kill Bill vol.

1 (2003) The Tagline: "Here comes the Bride." Why It's Great: It's a brilliant sort-of-pun, and works especially well when accompanied by the image of a blood-spattered, sword-waving Uma Thurman, looking just about as far from bridal as you could possibly imagine. If It Was Long-Winded: "He walked her down the aisle… someone will have to carry her up it again." Prev Chicken Run (2000) The Tagline: "Escape, or die frying." Why It's Great: Not only is it an excellent pun, but it also conjures a rather macabre image for a family film. Think we'll just cancel that KFC… If It Was Long-Winded: "If they don't escape, they'll end up in the deep-fat fryer, so don't think there's nothing at stake. Because there is." Prev Saturday Night Fever (1977) The Tagline: "Catch it." Why It's Great: "Small, but perfectly formed, it works brilliantly in tandem with the title. Anything longer, "Catch the fever" say, would have seemed corny, but this just works.

If It Was Long-Winded: "You put your right leg in, then your right leg out, in out, in out, you shake it all about…" Prev AVP: Alien vs. Predator (2004) The Tagline: "Whoever wins… we lose." Why It's Great: Cool in a geeky kind of way, this one-liner is far snappier and wittier than anything in the script. If It Was Long-Winded: "It doesn't matter whether the Alien beats the Predator, or the Predator beats the Alien, because both of them are monsters, and both of them kill humans." Prev Knocked Up (2007) The Tagline: "What if this guy got you pregnant?" Why It's Great: It swerves the more obvious marketing route of tapping into a young man's fear of responsibility by turning the tables to address the female audience. Seth Rogen's big schlubby face helps sell this one immeasurably. If It Was Long-Winded: "This is Ben. He's unemployed, fascinated by porn and lives with a whole bunch of his stoner buddies.

He just got you pregnant." Prev Office Space (1999) The Tagline: "Work sucks." Why It's Great: Not only is it a callback to director Mike Judge's work on Beavis & Butthead , but it also expresses a sentiment that every passerby can relate to on one level or another. If It Was Long-Winded: "Work sucks. Particularly if you work in IT for a dead-end company run by assholes." Prev Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) The Tagline: "One man's struggle to take it easy." Why It's Great: It sums up Ferris' modus operandi in a nutshell. Just the right side of the kind of thing you might see printed on a t-shirt. If It Was Long-Winded: "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." Prev Star Wars (1977) The Tagline: "A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away." Why It's Great: By employing the language of the fairytale, this one taps into the part in the human psyche that aches to be a child again.

And what better way than to rediscover that childlike sense of wonder than by buying a ticket to Star Wars ? If It Was Long-Winded: "Once upon a tim, there was a young man named Luke. Well, no, actually before that there was a boy named Anakin…" Prev The Truman Show (1998) The Tagline: "On the air. Unaware." Why It's Great: So catchy and so perfectly apposite, it's almost as though the tagline were written as a jumping off point for the film. And we mean that it a good way… If It Was Long-Winded: "Thanks to Big Brother , this is what we've all got to look forward to…" Prev Saving Private Ryan (1998) The Tagline: "The mission is a man" Why It's Great: Punchy, to the point, unhindered by emotion… it's a great tagline that manages to swerve many of the failings of the film itself. Controversy baiters? Us?

If It Was Long-Winded: "Oh say can you see, by the dawn's early light, what so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming." Prev Buffalo Soldiers (2001) The Tagline: "War is hell… but peace is fucking boring." Why It's Great: It's a great scene-setter for this most unconventional of army movies. Indeed, it could be a direct quote from Joaquin Phoenix's tearaway soldier, such is its acerbic wit. If It Was Long-Winded: "A war film in peace time… wait, bear with us, it's really funny!" Prev Armageddon (1998) The Tagline: "Earth. It was fun while it lasted." Why It's Great: A witty, understated tagline for a film that could de described as neither. if only they'd used the same flair on the actual script. If It Was Long-Winded: "Already seen Deep Impact ? Come and see it again, now with added explosions." Prev Army Of Darkness (1991) The Tagline: "Trapped in time. Surrounded by evil.

Low on gas." Why It's Great: The second Evil Dead sequel deserves a glibly badass tagline, and this one duly delivers. Although we would have preferred, "Yo! She-bitch! Let's go." If It Was Long-Winded: "My name is Ash and I am a slave. Close as I can figure, the year is thirteen hundred A.D and I'm being dragged to my death. It wasn't always like this…" Prev Jurassic Park (1993) The Tagline: "An adventure 65 million years in the making." Why It's Great: It evokes a nice callback to Spielberg "adventures" of the past (the Raiders re-release was accompanied by the tagline, "The return of the great adventure"), and shows remarkable restraint in not actually using the word "dinosaur". Bravo! If It Was Long Winded: "We have a T-Rex… and a Brachiosaur… and a Triceratops… and Raptors!

Lots of Raptors…" Prev This Is Spinal Tap (1984) The Tagline: "Does for rock and roll what The Sound Of Music did for hills." Why It's Great: Wilfully stupid and totally unhelpful to the prospective punter, it mirrors the film's offbeat sense of humour to a tee. If It Was Long-Winded: "Imagine a concert movie that doesn't get a bit tedious after the first twenty minutes or so. You've just imagined This Is Spinal Tap !" Prev I Am Legend (2007) The Tagline: "The last man on Earth is not alone" Why It's Great: It's a clever bit of wordplay that manages to summarise the plot and arouse the interest all in one sentence. Instantly, the potential audience wants to find out what's out there with him… If It Was Long-Winded: "The last man on Earth has New York all to himself.

At least, he does until nightfall…" Prev Full Metal Jacket (1987) The Tagline: "Vietnam can kill me, but it can't make me care." Why It's Great: As an expression of counter-culture, stick-it-to-the-man bullishness, it's pretty much untouchable. It also sums up Kubrick's view of the conflict in Vietnam rather succinctly. If It Was Long-Winded: "We don't believe in war, we don't believe in peace. How did we end up here again?" Prev There's Something About Mary (1998) The Tagline: "Love is in the hair." Why It's Great: Okay, so it works a to better if you've already seen the movie. And it's a shameless, shameless pun. But taking all that into account, we still love it. Sorry.

If It Was Long-Winded: "Ben Stiller's making a tit of himself again… buy your ticket to find out how he manages it this time!" Prev Apollo 13 (1995) The Tagline: "Houston, we have a problem." Why It's Great: Not only is it already a famous quote instantly recognisable to those in the know, it also draws in the uninitiated by spelling out the gist of the film. There are some astronauts, something goes wrong… you get the idea. If It Was Long-Winded: "Remember that mission to the moon where the astronauts nearly didn't come home? This is the movie of that." Prev Black Christmas (1974) The Tagline: "Last Christmas, you gave me your heart… now I want your eyeballs" Why It's Great: Seasonal cinema is usually blighted by chocolate box imagery and artery-clogging candy cane sentiment. This, on the other hand, bucks that trend somewhat. Nothing says Merry Christmas like the idea of missing eyeballs… If It Was Long-Winded: "Last Christmas, you gave me your heart… now I want your eyeballs. And a Scalextric.

And a new bike (preferably a Raleigh). And Nintendo…" Prev The Fly (1986) The Tagline: "Be afraid. Be very afraid." Why It's Great: One from the less is more school of advertising, and another that's entered the cultural lexicon. When it comes to horror taglines, the vaguer they are, the more effective they tend to be. If It Was Long-Winded: "When a man has his genetic material spliced with that of a fly, the outcome ain't pretty…" Prev Shaun Of The Dead (2003) The Tagline: "A romantic comedy. With Zombies." Why It's Great: Hey, you can't fault it for accuracy! And as high-concept taglines go, we can't think of many that sound more appealing. If It Was Long-Winded: "Remember the Resident Evil episode of Spaced ? Well this is a bit like that, only longer." Prev Superman (1978) The Tagline: "You'll believe a man can fly." Why It's Great: It homes right in on Superman's most awesome ability.

Sure he has super-strength, and eye-lasers are badass and everything, but come on… who wouldn't want to be able to fly? If It Was Long-Winded: "You'll believe that a man can burn holes in things, just by squinting at them. Oh, and fly. He can also fly." Prev Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (1977) The Tagline: "We are not alone." Why It's Great: Beautiful in its simplicity, it establishes the film's sci-fi credentials, whilst hinting that this one will be a tale of wonder rather than horror. If It Was Long-Winded: "There are aliens out there, but not all of them want to kill us. Some of them are just plain curious." Prev Ghostbusters (1984) The Tagline: "Who ya gonna call?" Why It's Great: As well as being unutterably cool in its own right, this one also has the added side effect of conjuring Ray Parker Junior's theme tune in the head of the reader. See? It's playing in your head right now. If It Was Long-Winded: "Who you gonna call in the event of a haunting?

Because if you're after the fire service, they're on a different number…" Prev The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) The Tagline: "Family isn't a word. It's a sentence." Why It's Great: A nice play on words that encapsulates the quirky sense of humour on show in Wes Anderson's domestic dramedy. It's also a sentiment that most people can relate to… If It Was Long-Winded: "If you thought Ben Stiller had it rough in Meet The Parents , wait until you get a load of these guys!" Prev Jaws 2 (1978) The Tagline: "Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water…" Why It's Great: Jaws ' tagline ("Don't go in the water.") was simplistic but effective, and this one riffs on its predecessor to pleasing effect. Nearly the most famous tagline in movie history. Nearly, but not quite… If It Was Long Winded: "Remember Bruce? Turns out he wasn't the only man-eating shark in existence.

Who knew?" Prev Alien (1979) The Tagline: "In space no one can hear you scream." Why It's Great: It perfectly reflects the film's marriage of sci-fi and horror, in a very catchy soundbite. It's a deliciously ominous way to sell a movie, and one that was guaranteed to pique the interest of the horror crowd, who might not otherwise have assumed the film was aimed at them… If It Was Long-Winded: "Sound can't travel through a vacuum, so when the alien turns up, you won't be able to call for help. Unless you're on the Nostromo, where there is Oxygen." Prev

Question: Which 2004 film was released with the advertising tag line 'A romantic comedy with zombies'?
Answer: SHAUN OF THE DEAD